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...Vile Body is largely the creation of Teachout, a Missouri-born polymath who plays jazz piano, reviews records and ballet, and is gearing up to write a biography of H.L. Mencken. When he moved to New York from the Midwest three years ago, Teachout was dismayed to discover that the city was, as he puts it, "hostile to civilized friendship." There was little opportunity for people of his age and ideology to coalesce for intellectual sustenance. "Conservatives and libertarians exist in an adversary culture," he explains. "You need a community where you don't have to be arguing first causes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Liberals Need Apply Here | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...Vile Body has no dues and no agenda, and it does more than just promote chat and nurture. Views and attitudes of 15 of its adherents are on display in a new anthology of essays called Beyond the Boom (Poseidon Press; $18.95), edited by Teachout and with a sprightly introduction by Tom Wolfe. The book is not so much a group manifesto as what Teachout calls a "core sample" of opinions by these right-of-center urban yuppies. Beyond the Boom's contributors can boast of having 14 books produced or in the works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Liberals Need Apply Here | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...true believers: their names can be found on the mastheads and in the bylines of such periodicals as Commentary, National Review, the American Spectator, the Wall Street Journal, the New Criterion and NY: The City Journal, a new quarterly of urban affairs. "We're not a unified sect," insists Teachout, adding that they do have one tenet in common: "The political and intellectual legacies of our older brothers and sisters, the baby boomers of the '60s, were a flop, a failure, a disaster." He sums up those legacies as "stale '60s romanticism, wan '70s disillusion, tedious '80s whining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Liberals Need Apply Here | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...liveliest is David Brooks' "Portrait of a Washington Policy Wonk," a dead- on, deadpan satire about how legislative aides and assistants to Cabinet secretaries can rise above their lowly station. Johnston, in "Break Glass in Case of Emergency," effectively skewers yuppiedom's jejune New Age spirituality. And Teachout, in "A Farewell to Politics," argues plausibly that the great ideological battles of the '90s will be fought over culture, a word he defines broadly enough to include abortion; family policy; and "sensitivity fascism" in American academia (which he describes elsewhere in the book as "a thoroughly uncongenial intellectual retirement home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Liberals Need Apply Here | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...Teachout frowns at the charge of smugness. "We would agree that we're all more or less on the side of the angels," he says. "We all took a deep breath when the Berlin Wall fell. But then we turned to other things." Among them is whether the Vile Body has any future in a city teetering on the brink of terminal decay. It's not a prospect that cheers the salon regulars. New York may be a city under enemy (read: tired old liberal) aegis. But it is also the center of a vernacular culture that makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Liberals Need Apply Here | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

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